How can I express life in terms of Debit & Credit? Real, Personal and Nominal accounts are nothing before the accounting system of life. I am yet to find a Chartered Accountant who can ‘Tally’ the balance sheet of life. Please read about the life’s accounting process below and let me know what you think. […]
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The Honor of Becoming Parents Parent
“There is a break in the family history, where the ages accumulate and overlap, and the natural order makes no sense: it’s when the child becomes the parent of their parent.” This happens when the father grows older and begins to move as if he were walking through fog – slowly, very slowly, imprecisely. The […]
WHO IS SCARED?
One of the Greek philosophers – I think it was Epicurus – said: “If I am, then death is not. If death is, then I am not. Why should I be scared of that which can only exist when I am not? Long-time men lay oppressed with slavish fear”. This was said some 5000 years […]
The 4 Walls of Fear
Human beings lived and are living in fear. This fear is injected by the parents and the society. The human mind is free. Rabindranath Tagore said ‘Where the mind is free, where the head is held high’. Forget the mind and the head, we can’t even think freely! Our mind is constrained…4 walls are built; […]
The Manchester Mummy
Fear of being buried alive was common in the 18th and 19th centuries. Due to this concern the casket companies developed innovative coffins offering a means of signaling for help if they were buried alive. In mid-1700s Hannah Beswick, a wealthy English woman, convinced her physician, Dr. Thomas White, not to bury her when she died – just in […]
